The exhibition of "A Tale of Three Cities" is jointly organised by the Guangdong Museum, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, and the Macao Museum.
China is the birthplace of silk, and was the first country to produce textiles made from silkworm cocoons. As early as the Qin and Han dynasties, Chinese silk was already considered one of the most precious commodities exported from China through the overland and maritime trade routes. With the increased connectivity of the maritime trade routes during the Ming and Qing dynasties, Chinese silk was shipped all over the world through the Greater Bay Area as an important mass commodity. The exhibition features 108 sets of exhibits from the three museums, presenting the landscape of the Greater Bay Area and silk production during the period. It also explores the connections between the three places and the story of cultural exchange between East and West through export silk.
PROGRAMME
Speaker: English-speaking guide assigned by the museum
Meeting point & Time:10:50 am at the entrance of the Chinese Antiquities Gallery, 3/F of the HKMoA
Venue: Chinese Antiquities Gallery, 3/F, Hong Kong Museum of Art
Admission: $100 for members, $150 for guests /non-members for both exhibitions (20 participants max for each session)
Registration: Please email <membership@royalasiaticsociety.org.hk> and state whether you will join in the special exhibition. Please provide your membership number, if applicable, at the time of registration.
The tour has a capped capacity and requires pre-registration.
Walk-in participants are welcome depending on availability.
Cash payment will be collected on the event day. Please prepare the exact payment. Registration will be closed at 12 noon on 1 December 2023.
More details: https://hk.art.museum/en/web/ma/exhibitions-and-events/a-tale-of-three-cities.html
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The Special Exhibition: Titian and the Venetian Renaissance
The exhibition is jointly organised by the Hong Kong Museum of Art and The Uffizi Galleries, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in Hong Kong and supported by The Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong.
With its labyrinth of intricate canals and gondolas, Venice during the Renaissance was a picture of serenity. Once an important trading and cultural hub, the enchanting lagoon city brought together merchants, voyagers, scholars and artists from all over the world. It was from this affluent setting and unique cultural atmosphere that came the birth of the Venetian School of painters, who were renowned for the use of rich colours and the profound depiction of human emotions through exceptional artistic abilities.
The most significant among them was Titian, an artist highly sought after not only in Venice but across Europe. He was the favoured painter of popes, emperors and princes because of his talent for representing the most intense facets of human sentiment — love, desire, power and spirituality — in an extraordinary way. He served as a model for his contemporaries and his works profoundly influenced European art for centuries to come.
If you would like to visit the exhibition on you own ahead of our guided tour, please arrive at the meeting time and place as stated below and you'll be offered a wristband for entering the special exhibition.
Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Venue: The Special Gallery, 2/F, Hong Kong Museum of Art
Meeting point & Time: 9:45 am at the designated group entrance, outside the G/F lobby of the HKMoA
More details:
https://hk.art.museum/en/web/ma/exhibitions-and-events/titian-and-the-venetian-renaissance-from-the-uffizi.html